 walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities.' But this, if we mistake not, is at all times the very essence of a truly poetical endowment. Poetry, except in such cases as that of Keats, where the whole consists in a weak-eyed maudlin sensibility,...  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 285by Thomas Carlyle - 1860Full view - About this book
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...composition. From this conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities."...very essence of a truly poetical endowment. Poetry, extreme sensibility, and a certain vague pervading tunefulness of nature, is no separate faculty, no... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 508 pages
...composition. From this conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities."...very essence of a truly poetical endowment. Poetry, extreme sensibility, and a certain vague pervading tunefulness of nature, is no separate faculty, no... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 862 pages
...conversation I should have pronounced him • to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition ' had chosen to exert his abilities.' But this, if we...and a certain vague random tunefulness of nature, is no separate faculty, no organ which can be superadded to the rest, or disjoined from them; but rather... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 pages
...of composition. From his conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities."...cases as that of Keats, where the whole consists in extreme sensibility, and a certain vague pervading tunefulness of nature, is no separate faculty, 110... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...in song. We do not think, with Carlyle, that it is the same with all high poets. He says—"Poetry, except in such cases as that of Keats, where the whole...weak-eyed maudlin sensibility, and a certain vague tunefulness of nature, is no separate faculty, no organ which can be superadded to the rest, or disjoined... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...of composition. From his conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities."...cases as that of Keats, where the whole consists in extreme sensibility, and a certain vague pervading tunefulness of nature, is no separate faculty, no... | |
 | Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1853 - 498 pages
...pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever ' walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his abi' lities.' But this, if we mistake not, is at all times the very...in a weak-eyed maudlin sensibility, and a certain random tunefulness of nature, is no separate faculty, no organ which can be superadded to the rest,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1854 - 98 pages
...him to be fitted to excel in whatever ' walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his abi' lities. ' But this, if we mistake not, is at all times the very...in a weak-eyed maudlin sensibility, and a certain random tunefulness of nature, is no separate faculty, no organ which can be superadded to the rest,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 216 pages
...composition. From. his conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities."...cases as that of Keats, where the whole consists in extreme sensibility, and a certain vague pervading tunefulness of nature, is no separate faculty, no... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - 1875 - 268 pages
...Coleridge, no word for Wordsworth. For Keats he had a word in the paper on Burns, and here it is : " Poetry, except in such cases as that of Keats, where...maudlin sensibility ? and a certain vague, random timefulness of nature, is no separate faculty." A parenthesis, short and contemptuous, is all he gives... | |
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